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I wanted to establish a thread on our ongoing use of the Dometic Durasea A/C unit. Noise level from three feet away from the unit outside—it’s only 75 dB. Inside the cabin noise level is between 75 dB and 80 dB. However, the noise is low pitched. My wife and I can have a normal conversation...

Recently I reported we had permanently removed our 9.9 HP auxiliary motor. I now believe that the combination of the heavier Honda 115 HP main and auxiliary motors makes the Marinaut 215 stern heavy, preventing our boat from keeping her bow down in heavy seas. What a positive difference it...

We had our boat in valet storage for the past seven seasons, but we eventually felt unduly constrained, having to vacate the dock within one hour of launch to become a transient at a local marina. The season was May 1 through October 15, which was short for our type of boat. So we moved to a...

Hello fellow Marinaut owners. How much did you use your Marinaut this season? My wife and I used the Betty Ann for 17 nights, and 30 days on the water, but we only put 650 miles on the boat. We were not adventurous at all this season, spending most of out time on the water in Greenport, NY...

We were looking into installing a roof-mounted air conditioner on our marinate this year, and determined that there were no viable options on the market -- only ones of 100+ pounds in the 12,000+ but range such as offered by Dometic and Coleman. We did not want to throw off the center of...

I completed the design of a matrix, customized for the area of Long Island Sound we frequent, that shows the maximum potential wave heights dependent upon wind direction, velocity and fetch. All we have to know is the wind speed, direction and our intended destination, and we can use the matrix...

There was a thread on the CD forum about the lack of scuppers on the C-Dory's and its cousin the Marinaut. Everyone knows that with most boats our size, a very large wave that poops the cockpit has the potential to submerge the scuppers on boats so equipped, rendering them useless. However, I...

Many people continue think that the Marinaut is a flat bottom boat, despite what Les Lampman had stated a few month's ago. Looking at pictures is not really going to help anyone. I think what leads people to this conclusion is not seeing the line drawings. So I went to Dave's Tolland Marine...

In the Northeast, nearly everyone seems to want to back into transient berths. I just don't get it, because it risks damaging an engine. In the PNW, it's the opposite case. I have found it nearly impossible to back up our Marinaut and make a turn into a slip when the wind is significant and...

The storage capacity of our Marinaut is considerable. Keep in mind that we did not cut into the floor span for utilizing that space for storage. So everything you see here was neatly stowed in the standard spaces available. We emptied our boat for the season, and were stunned at how much...

Has anyone noticed that the seas for boating in the Northeast -- particularly Long Island Sound -- have been rougher this year than in previous years? Seas of 2 to 4 feet have been commonplace. It's not just the wave heights that's the issue, but it is also the fact that the wave periods have...

No matter how good we are, or how good we think we are, there comes a time when a series of events can lead to an accident. This happened to me last Friday. I was on the Thames River near high tide, traveling around 15 mph. I passed between the red and green cans located before a slight bend...

We put a 9.9 HP, electric-start Tohatsu on our Marinaut, and love the engine. It has been trouble-free thus far. We had our Tohatsu mounted on a Garelick Offshore bracket. Here are our findings. 1) We use the motor only for emergencies, albeit we test it monthly, then let it run dry of...

A few weeks ago I reported difficulty in performing routine photo functions such as editing descriptions and titles, moving photos, reordering and etc on Apple iPads and Mac OS X workstations. The problem was not with Safari, but rather the result of Pop-Ups being enabled. In the Windows...

In reading posts about owners removing flotation from their C-Dory's to create more usable space, it got me thinking about Marinaut flotation in general. As everyone knows, the USCG does not require boats over 21 feet in length to float upright and level. So with my limited knowledge, I made...

I thought it would be interesting to open a topic about various Marinaut Shore Power set-ups. We decided on a temporary shore power set up for the Betty Ann, because even though we regularly stay in transient berths, we find the electrical systems on the boat adequate for being off the grid for...

We named our first boat, a C-Dory 16 Cruiser, "C-Nile", not wanting to come up with such a pretentious name for a small boat like "Dauntless, Intrepid, or Flying Cloud. It got a lot of laughs. Nearly every time out, we got people on other boats laughing when they saw our name, C-Nile in huge...

In the past year, Betty and I have slept a total of 29 nights on our Marinaut, and we continue to love it. We sleep very comfortably with the set-up as shown in our photo album. The Hypervent has prevented condensation from forming under our berth cushion. We recommend installing it just...

This may seem a trivial topic, but my wife and I just spent an overnight in the Connecticut River, anchored in 10 feet of water in the Special Anchorage 1/2 mile downstream from the Goodspeed Opera House. The anchor and chain arrangement set-up by Les and the MBC worked surprisingly well. Here...

In my opinion and that of my wife, why would one need a phone-booth sized head enclosure, when a private, 12 square foot, portable toilet enclosure surrounding a luxurious Thetford Curve toilet be deployed in less than 3 minutes? Granted, in order to make this work, one needs a camperback...